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Social Science Feminism & Feminist Theory

In Times Like These

by (author) Nellie Lillian McClung

introduction by Veronica Strong-Boag

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
May 2017
Category
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies, Social History, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487522322
    Publish Date
    May 2017
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802061256
    Publish Date
    Jun 1972
    List Price
    $26.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442638990
    Publish Date
    Jun 1972
    List Price
    $29.95

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Nellie McClung's fourth book, In Times Like These, written in 1915, survives as a classic formulation of a feminist position. With hard-hitting rhetoric it demands women's rights as a logical extension of traditional views of female moral superiority and maternal responsibility.

About the authors

Nellie McClung was an activist: prominent campaigner in the successful drives for female suffrage in Manitoba and Alberta, a nationally known feminist and social reformer, the only woman at the Canadian War Conference of 1918, and MLA in Alberta, the first woman member of the CBC's Board of Governors, and in 1938 a Canadian delegate to the League of Nations.

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Veronica Strong-Boag is a professor of women’s and gender studies and of educational studies at the University of British Columbia. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and a past president of the Canadian Historical Association. She has written widely on the history of Canadian women and children—including studies of the 1920s and 30s, the experience of post—WW II suburbia, Nellie L. McClung, E. Pauline Johnson, childhood disabilities, and modern neo-conservatism’s attack on women and children—and has won the John A. Macdonald Prize in Canadian History, the 2012 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences awarded by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and, with Carole Gerson, the Raymond Klibansky Prize in the Humanities. In 2012 Strong-Boag was awarded the Tyrrell Medal from the Royal Society of Canada for outstanding work in Canadian history. She is the author of Fostering Nation: Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage (WLU Press, 2010).

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